Rhona Canoy

Rhona Canoy is the president and head administrator of International School CDO. Bon vivant, raconteur, epicure, mental voyeur, occasional Yoda. You may address her as "The Intelligent Loquacious Wildly Eccentric Sometimes Inebriated Honest But Sarcastic Essential B*tch."

Rhona Canoy / SO… in the face of all the depressing news filled with sex, drugs, and corruption this week I choose to honor all the dogs (the four-legged fur-covered kind) who have come and gone in my life. Yes, to those who have never had a relationship with animals, ...

Rhona Canoy SO… When I started writing this column over a year ago, my first musings included a two-part column about our educational system. The hope then was that we would all begin to see changes which, of course, would benefit our learners. Much to my non-surprise, the basic education ...

Rhona Canoy SO… Our home got violated by a very uninvited and unwelcome “guest” a couple of weeks ago. Until that happened, the concept of crime and punishment was something that flitted in and out of my consciousness without leaving any lasting effect. We have grown calloused by reports of ...

Rhona Canoy SO… Everyone has had almost two months to think (or not) about what has been happening in Marawi, and all that has happened in its wake. I’m quite saddened by what I see around me and it makes me wonder if it’s just a matter of overthinking. The ...

Rhona Canoy SO… One would think that after a year of writing a weekly column I would run out of things to say, but I guess I was wrong. This stream of thought was born out of a Facebook post by Bruh Cong Corrales showing his princess’s senior high school ...

Rhona Canoy SO… I’ve been reviewing the required DepEd curriculum for the Values subject. To be honest, I have always had a negative bias against our esteemed gods of academe because my perversely “arrogant” nature has never seen fit to put my trust in them. In this continuing struggle to ...

Rhona Canoy SO… If I had to eat only one kind of fruit for the rest of my life, it would have to be the mango. All kinds, but mango. Carabao, pajo, Indian, apple, rosso–name it, I’ll eat it. No other fruit provides a truly sensual experience. It starts with ...

Rhona Canoy SO… Every year at this time, I go through a career crisis. Steering the ship that is my school fills my mind and my heart with stress and distress. I’m constantly wondering if it’s an effort worth continuing or if it’s a complete waste of time. This year, ...

Rhona Canoy SO… It has become our normal to complain about the traffic situation in Cagayan de Oro. Which is quite understandable considering the amount of standing-still time we spend on our roads at particular times of the day. My internal conflict stems from the expectation of how long it ...

Rhona Canoy SO… Too many things and too many events over the past few weeks makes me realize that no matter how well-intentioned any mortal being may be, at a certain point one shuts down and certainly not by choice. I have been too close to death experiences not to ...